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overkill

Vox populi An excess of anything
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Sixth, Martin's posited megafaunal naivete as instrumental to overkill can operate only if humans did not inhabit North America before the advent of Clovis technology, but North American human presence (and potential megafaunal predation) dates to thousands of years before Clovis as indicated by the archeological record.
Quantitative analysis of megafaunal extinctions and the tenacity of pleistocene overkill: archeology and the world historian
All told Overkill is and over the top and pretty simplistic, but it's all the better for it.
Horrors and gore galore
I agree the number of flags on cars at the moment is a bit of overkill but like every other fad they will be gone in another few weeks.
Matter of pride
The intense deployment of props (miniature coffins) and design elements (rising mounds of earth from which victims emerge) ultimately trivialized a serious subject through decorative overkill.
ODC/San Francisco
Secret bank jams and pool events have sprung up here and there through the years, but this may be the first true street-style inception--especially in today's atmosphere of Skate Stoppers and overkill security.
Bolt Cutter Project
Some public health experts question whether this is overkill.
The Army, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Institutes of Health plan to build three separate laboratories at Fort Detrick, MD, to create a national biodefense campus
Recorded on October 22, 2000 all the old chestnuts are here, with We Are Motorhead, Orgasmatron, Bomber, Ace Of Spades and Overkill rattled off at machine-gun pace and at brain-damaging decibel levels.
The Mag: CD Reviews - MOTORHEAD 25 & Alive (Steamhammer)
03, page 41), I felt the firm engaged in overkill in transforming its compensation system.
A simpler approach to keeping employees
Boasting big hits from big stars like Amber, Kim English, and Ultra Nate, the disc suffers from diva overkill and unimaginative mixes, the very feature that will undoubtedly make it a disco-consumer magnet.
The White Party 2000
The Alliance of American Insurers, which has opposed the standard, said it was disappointed by the final OSHA rule and characterized the program as "regulatory overkill.
OSHA Issues Ergonomics Standard
But recent evidence that human migrants to New Zealand extinguished the resident moas (about a dozen species of large, non-flying birds, of which the kiwi is the only survivor) 700 years ago by killing and eating them lends weight to the overkill hypothesis worldwide.
Tell It to the Swordfish
But suffering overkill, the Louvre agreement was needed in February 1987 to halt the dollar's slide.
Benign Neglect

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